UBA BANK DONATES BOOKS IN CELEBRATION OF INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD

June 16 every year has been set aside by the United Nations as the International Day of the African Child to celebrate children in Africa and in recognition of the courage of students who marched for their right to better education in Soweto, South Africa.

Since this day aims at raising awareness for the situation of children in Africa and highlights the need for continuous improvement in Education, United Bank for Africa Tanzania Limited (UBA), through its Read AfricaInitiative, joined the rest of the world to celebrate African children by donating literature books to Kurasini Secondary School in Dar es Salaam.

UBA Tanzania’s Head of Corporate Banking, Dora Kyungu, used the opportunity to explain what the ‘UBA Read Africa Initiative’ means and the role it plays in encouraging students across Africa to improve their vocabularies and communication skills through reading.

UBA is a global Africa bank with presence in 20 African countries, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and France. The bank recognizes how the reading culture is critical to the future of our African children and the continent as well. All children were encouraged inculcate the habit of reading and read the donated books to enrich their bank of vocabularies to enhance their learning abilities.

After receiving the books, the headmaster of Kurasini Secondary School, Amry Jaribu Fundi, acknowledged thekind gesture of United Bank for Africa Tanzania Limited (UBA) for supporting quality education across in Tanzania. He urged the students to take full advantage of the donated books to increase their knowledge and continue to build a reading habit.

The Head Girl of the school, Sonia Madaha, expressed her sincere gratitude on behalf of other students and promised to continue to lead by example by reading a lot more.

UBA has an impeccable track record of supporting the communities where it operates.